fabric
(7)
Michaels picked up the thread.
Joann closed. Party City disappeared. Michaels saw unfinished projects, unplanned birthdays, and a very practical opening: give those customers somewhere to go.
Avi Jacoby and the art of making room
An Air Force veteran with an architecture degree and an oil-painting practice, Avi “Jack” Jacoby brings an unusual range of experience to Fabric. His work in robotic fulfillment turns on a practical question: how much can fit into the space you already have?
Kravet
Kravet turned a New York tailor's eye for cloth into a trade-only system for designing entire rooms. A century later, its real product is not simply fabric - it is confidence at the moment a designer commits.
Orca
Orca is a San Francisco startup (Y Combinator S24) that lets anyone build, host, and play Minecraft games without writing code. You describe a mod, plugin, or world in plain English and Orca's AI writes the code, generates textures, compiles a real mod, tests it, and can deploy it live to a free 8 GB server in seconds. The company frames its ambition as building a Roblox-style creator platform on top of Minecraft's 300M+ player base, playable from a browser or a free desktop client.
Aniq Rahman
Aniq Rahman is the founder and CEO of Fabric, a New York healthcare technology company building an AI-driven care enablement platform that helps health systems triage, navigate and treat patients faster. Before Fabric, he was president of ad-analytics firm Moat through its roughly $850 million sale to Oracle, was on the early team at Behance, and ran Instinctiv before its acquisition by SoundCloud. He launched Fabric in 2021 after watching his father move through the hospital system following a heart attack, and has since stitched together five acquisitions, raised tens of millions from General Catalyst, Thrive Capital, GV and Salesforce Ventures, and earned spots on Forbes 30 Under 30 and Modern Healthcare's 40 Under 40.
Sailesh Kumar
Sailesh Kumar is the founder and CEO of Baya Systems, a Santa Clara startup building unified fabric and chiplet interconnect software for AI silicon. A former Intel Fellow and the co-founder of NetSpeed Systems (acquired by Intel in 2018), he holds more than 150 patents and is among the most-cited engineers in network-on-chip design.
Wayne Chang
Wayne Chang is a Taiwanese-American serial entrepreneur, angel investor, and technologist who co-founded Crashlytics (acquired by Twitter for ~$260M, then sold to Google as Fabric), co-founded Digits (AI-powered fintech for SMBs), and is currently building Reasoner, a neurosymbolic AI company claiming to outperform OpenAI's o1 models. Named one of Forbes' Top 50 Angel Investors with 80+ investments and 31+ exits generating over $150 billion in combined value, Chang also holds the coveted @wayne Twitter handle, holds 20+ patents, won an Emmy for producing Chasing Coral, and helped launch Dropbox by recruiting co-founder Arash Ferdowsi.